Every expectant parent is faced with countless preparations and decisions before a child is welcomed into the home. Some are tedious, most elicit myriad opinions, but one will most certainly affect the child for the rest of his or her life: choosing a name. It is often drawn from a parent’s lineage, sometimes chosen for its meaning as a blessing, and in many cultures indicates ones pedigree. To be named is to be human.

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. The Word was given a name: Jesus. Everything that is, came into being through him. The divine enters the adam-flesh, and in this being God finds no fault. But, then, the divine-human rends the flesh so all may enter, be absorbed and redeemed by it. This is so that, as Julian of Norwich saw, all that is not well will be…